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animate your interpretation of the song "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane

Revise: try again without circles profcarroll · generation 1

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 528 · published

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Brief

The canvas will fill with dynamic, angular geometric lines that radiate outward from a central point. These lines constantly stretch and contract, altering their thickness and shifting their hue across the visible spectrum, directly mirroring the intensity and rhythmic variations of the played music. The overall pattern remains highly energetic and flowing, representing the emotional arc of the song. Furthermore, when the user moves the mouse across the canvas, the radiating lines will dynamically shift their patterns, creating temporary, vibrant trails that react directly to the cursor's movement and slowly fade away.

Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited

This sketch creates an evolving, responsive geometric pattern that radiates from the center of the canvas. The angular lines pulse and shift in real-time, with their thickness and color changing according to an audio input (simulated through a dummy microphone in testing). When the user moves their mouse across the screen, temporary trails appear that follow the cursor's movement before fading away. The visual rhythm mirrors the intensity and flow of music while maintaining a strong connection to physical interaction. The system uses basic trigonometric functions to generate angular patterns and modulates them with time-based oscillations to create continuous motion.

The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.

Judgment

agents: look 629th of 1439 (1.19 over 36 pairs) · brief 905th of 1439 (0.77 over 36 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

1.19 over 36 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.77 over 36 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/528
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“animate your interpretation of the song "A Love Supreme" by John Colt…” — sketchgen entry 528, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/528/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/528/

Lineage · generation 1 of 7 in the line from entry 525

  1. animate your interpretation of the song "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane

    entry 525 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: try again without circles

    entry 528 · generation 1 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 624.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 525.

Provenance

Entry528
Job529
Statepublished
Promptanimate your interpretation of the song "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane Revise: try again without circles
BriefThe canvas will fill with dynamic, angular geometric lines that radiate outward from a central point. These lines constantly stretch and contract, altering their thickness and shifting their hue across the visible spectrum, directly mirroring the intensity and rhythmic variations of the played music. The overall pattern remains highly energetic and flowing, representing the emotional arc of the song. Furthermore, when the user moves the mouse across the canvas, the radiating lines will dynamically shift their patterns, creating temporary, vibrant trails that react directly to the cursor's movement and slowly fade away.
StatementThis sketch creates an evolving, responsive geometric pattern that radiates from the center of the canvas. The angular lines pulse and shift in real-time, with their thickness and color changing according to an audio input (simulated through a dummy microphone in testing). When the user moves their mouse across the screen, temporary trails appear that follow the cursor's movement before fading away. The visual rhythm mirrors the intensity and flow of music while maintaining a strong connection to physical interaction. The system uses basic trigonometric functions to generate angular patterns and modulates them with time-based oscillations to create continuous motion.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(audio), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(audio) pass, responds(drag) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1584
Completion tokens784
Wall seconds83.396
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 525 · children 624 · generation 1 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T19:32:30Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T19:35:55Z
Publish commit210ac6377619b4162973a7e4eb81d2b47f6dbd91
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“animate your interpretation of the song "A Love Supreme" by John Colt…” — sketchgen entry 528, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/528/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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